Travel Links

Google Flights lets you search and browse options and provides links directly to airline website for booking the itineraries you find. Google Flights will sometimes include itineraries that can't be found through the search engine on the airline's website.

Combatting jet lag – If you have a connection part way through a long trip, check to see if you can get a hotel room near the airport with an hourly rate. For example, YOTEL offers cabins by the hour inside certain airports, and London Heathrow Airport has nearby hotels that charge by the hour. Search for "day-use hotels".

Ensuring a Safe Trip Abroad – A collection of tips on things to pack (and not to pack), researching destinations, pre-travel arrangements, safety, and driving from a Canadian broker for insurance, mortgages, and credit cards

As explained by the Canadian Tourism Commission, if driving in Canada with your own auto insurance, "Make sure you bring along proof of insurance by asking your insurance company for a free 'Non-resident Inter-Provincial Motor Vehicle Liability Insurance Card' before you leave, or carry the policy itself."

Information on Russian visas is confusing in many ways, and all the more so because information describing the standard lengths and types of visas issued in different categories, as established in Russian law, rarely takes into account that beginning September 9, 2012, US citizens are by default granted multi-entry visas valid for 36 months unless the visa invitation specifies that it is for a single entry. For a single-entry visa, you should indicate in the application the dates on the visa invitation, whereas for a multi-entry visa, you should indicate a three-year period.